Measuring Length

The P.E. teacher asks the pupils to measure their heights.

Raj is 5 cm taller than Peiling.

If Raj is 127 cm tall, what is the height of Peiling?

• 122 cm

• 132 cm

• 123 cm

• 132 cm

Samantha has 80 cm of green tape and 65 cm of purple tape.

She uses 23 cm of the green tape and 18 cm of the purple tape to make a decoration.

What is the total length of both tape does Samantha have in the end?

• 103 cm

• 104 cm

• 105 cm

• 106 cm

Michelle has 20 cm of orange ribbon.

She cuts 15 cm off the orange ribbon,

Then, she decides to tie 6 cm of red ribbon and 5 cm of yellow ribbon to it.

How long is the ribbon now?

• 14 cm long

• 12 cm long

• 17 cm long

• 16 cm long

A ribbon was 81 centimetres long.

Emma used 19 centimetres of it to tie a present.

Her mother then gave her another 27 centimetres of ribbon.

What was the total length of ribbon Emma had in the end?

Melinda has a piece of string.

She used 27 metres of string and had 5 metres of string left.

What was the length of the piece of string at first?